Ellen and Bennett find out that Stan can talk, and shortly after the entire James-Jennings family is taken hostage by the U.S. Space Command's Alien Division. Together, the Jennings-James family must work together and devise an escape plan, all while protecting Stan.

When Avery realizes that her family thinks that she is not fun, she decides to prove them wrong by making a movie with her family called "Freaky Fido".

Tyler enters the same art competition as Avery.

After Tyler develops a crush on their new neighbor, Nikki Ortiz (Denyse Tontz), he invites her to walk their dogs together. Tyler enlists Stan to be his wing-man, and to Stan's dismay, he cannot stand Nikki's Pomeranian, Evita, due to her incessant barking. Meanwhile, Chloe asks Bennett to speak at Career Day about his job, but Bennett is shocked when Chloe believes he is a sock-ologist, a person who studies socks, instead of a psychologist.

Avery's boyfriend (Dustin) dumps her and Stan tells her that she should go to her mother for help. Tyler accidentally crashes the food truck when he took out the brick that holds it.

Bennett and Ellen discover Avery's secret online 'Buddy Bop' account. When they try to shut Avery's account down, they accidentally post an embarrassing video. Meanwhile, Stan must face his past and do the tango with Chloe, to win an animal talent show. In the end, Stan loses the talent show to a talking dog.

The constant fighting between the kids leads Stan to run away

Avery learns she's been selected to create a float for her town's parade and is excited to spend some quality time with her father to build it. Meanwhile, Chloe watches a sci-fi movie that leads her to believe her family is being taken over by aliens and that the parede float they are costructing is really a spaceship

When Avery’s latest design gets ruined before a big fashion show, she must get to the bottom of who destroyed the dress.

It is the family's first Christmas together and Avery is prepping Tyler, Chloe, and Stan because Ellen has a reputation of giving horrible gifts. Meanwhile, Bennett and Ellen argue over whose Christmas traditions to follow.

After overhearing Avery talk about Stan's secret, Karl Fink (the family's neighbor) starts spying on Stan and the rest of the family to find out his secret. To make sure he doesn't find out, Avery decides to enter Tyler into a math competition against Karl after it is revealed Tyler is a math genius. The plan to divert Karl from Stan's actual secret works, and he eventually believes that there was no secret and that Avery tried to get back at him for a prank he pulled earlier. Meanwhile, Bennett tries to get Chloe to stop wearing her magician's outfit to school.

When Stan is in charge of watching Chloe, she goes missing!

To help land an internship with a City Official, Avery agrees to a throw party at her house for the official’s demanding daughter, while keeping it a secret from her parents. Meanwhile, Bennett and Ellen attend a sleepover at the park with Chloe and her Healthy Muffins Troop.

Tyler works with Emily in the food truck and they hit it off.

When Stan acts up, Ellen hires strict animal instructor Cherri Pickford to help train him. When Stan does not comply, Ellen goes against the kids' wishes and demands he stay outside.

Avery doesn't understand why Wes is keeping his distance, but ultimately learns he is nervous to tell her that he is moving away.

Ellen has decided to get a pet of her own, a talking parrot, but the rest of the family is not very comfortable with it.

After Tyler gets his learner's permit, he wants to drive alone due to his parents annoying him, and everyone wanting taking advantage of him. Chaos ensues when Stan crashes the car because he wanted to be like a person, and everyone thinks Tyler did it. Meanwhile, Ellen and Bennett relive the memories they shared with Tyler and Avery when they were kids and realize that they are all grown-up, so they start cherishing memories with Chloe. In flashbacks, it is revealed that Ellen and Bennett had an ugly run-in at the park when Avery and Tyler were much younger, however they do not remember this.

Avery and her best friend, Lindsay (Kayla Maisonet), are in desperate need for a replacement to be the school mascot to perform at the homecoming game. Stan convinces Avery to let him be the school mascot, but she is worried because the rival team always pulls horrible pranks on the mascots. Meanwhile, Ellen is beyond annoyed because the car always smells horribly bad, so she persuades Bennett into buying a new car.

Avery makes the cheerleading squad

Tyler gets a summer job on a food truck and decides he would rather have his own truck than finish school.

Avery, Tyler and Chloe react to the news, when Stan overhears a conversation between Ellen and Bennett about a possible new addition to the family. Bennett has the chance to become a public speaker and be rich, but the children ruin it all thinking they will have a new baby.

When Avery agrees to tutor Wes in Spanish so she can hang out with him, she needs to learn Spanish herself, first. So she enlists Nikki to tell her what to say through an earpiece that she'll be wearing, but when Nikki and Tyler start arguing, Avery's still repeating everything they say.

After Tyler's friendship with Nikki begins to interfere with his relationship with his girlfriend Emily, he has to make an tough choice between the two.

Avery and Ellen go on a mother/daughter trip and leaves Bennett in charge of getting Chloe ready for her dance recital.